Ashes Day 2 notes

Well England appear to have come back from the death to put Australia on the rack courtesy of some top quality bowling from Stuart Broad.

I'll partially take back my comment yesterday about the Poms not looking like they wanted to win it - Broad seems to have lit a bit of a fire underneath them and his first spell of 5-16 simply wrecked the Aussie lineup and it was some top quality fast bowling.

Yeah the English cause was helped a bit with some tight decisions but when the ball is in your court you run with it.

I was a little surprised that more wasn't made of the 37 and 18 contributed by Broad and Swann at the end of the English innings. I think those two scores could prove vital on a pitch which is going down fast.

Having said that, the Aussies don't look they have given up either and they've knocked over three quick wickets leaving the South African batters the job of securing an Ashes winning total.

It could be a humdinger of a weekend for these two sides - let's see who comes out on top!